Screenings will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 29, and Friday, Aug. 30, at Cinemark Movies 10 in Candlers Station Shopping Center, adjacent to Liberty’s campus. All events are free and open to the public.

“This marks the beginning of Liberty’s cinematic arts department’s relationship with the major movie studios. It also demonstrates the studios’ interest in our film program to allow the first-time screenings to happen in Lynchburg,” said Stephan Schultze, executive director of Cinematic Arts.

Liberty’s Cinematic Arts, Zaki Gordon Center officially launched last year. Students accepted as Cinema Arts majors enter an immersion program their junior year, in which they are devoted solely to their filmmaking academia. Every graduate of Liberty’s Cinematic Arts program will leave the school with a completed screenplay, a business plan to market and fund it, a short film they have written and directed, and real-world career experience, including a feature film credit and work with industry veterans.